Fukuoka Prison, 1944. Beyond the prison walls the war rages; inside a man is found brutally murdered. Watanabe, a young guard with a passion for reading, is tasked with finding the killer. The victim, Sugiyama - also a guard - was feared and despised throughout the prison and investigations have bar
The Investigation
โ Scribed by Stanislaw Lem
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt;Harcourt Brace & Company
- Year
- 1986
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 130 KB
- Edition
- First Harvest edition 1986
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
A young officer at Scotland Yard is assigned to investigate a puzzling and eerie case of missing-and apparently resurrected-bodies. To unravel the mystery, Lt. Gregory consults scientific, philosophical, and theological experts, who supply him with a host of theories and clues.
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